Tuesday, November 22, 2016
Consider it a Warning America and take heed
We would note on this occasion that although what India’s citizens are
facing these days may seem a remote danger to most Westerners, it does
demonstrate an important point: state-issued paper currency exists only at the sufferance of the State. It can be made worthless by decree.
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| currency ban makes Indian banks solvent by removing liabilities in cash off their books. There is a German Commercial last year about with an Investor whom is being advised by the Banker. In the commercial the the man asks the banker what about cash? The banker says we can't have that, it equals Freedom. The signs are there. It is all about the "Hunt For Taxes", and "Soviegn Debt Crisis". everytime I pay cash at the supermarket now, they warn me I'm about to receive a whole pile of change. What denotes a whole pile of cash you ask, 3 notes and 2 coins. They are trying to discourage people from paying cash by implying you are being inconvienced. While it might seem good they are deeply concerned about my well being, I find it extreemly annoying. This purely is about getting rid of cash by means of stealth and mind control ! |
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Committing Felonies and getting students to assist as minors - US Schools all over the country are doing some version of KILL TRUMP
Via DaisyLuther.com,
Anyone who has ever had a toddler knows that when your little one
falls down, often, they look to you before deciding whether they should
cry or not. If you rush over and say, “Oh you poor baby, you’re hurt” then the wailing commences. If you glance over and say, “You’re okay. You’re a tough cookie. Get back up,” then you’re teaching them that the proper response to falling is shaking it off and getting up again. We’re instilling courage and resilience when we do this.
We teach children how to respond to almost everything by modeling a healthy response for them, but our school/indoctrination system seems to have missed this crucial concept of Dealing with Disappointment 101. Their overly nurturing and politically biased response to Trump’s win over Hillary Clinton is making everything worse.
Basic psychology tells us that when we bolster someone’s fear by our response, we’re actually reinforcing that they have grave reason to be fearful.
By babying these kids because their favored candidate lost and constantly discussing the fears, the education/indoctrination system is teaching kids that the proper response to a Trump presidency is abject terror, disappointment, and donning the cloak of victimhood. The meetings for a primal scream, the delaying of midterm exams, the counseling, and the excused absences to protest all say to kids, “Oh my gosh, this is serious. We’re all be spending next Christmas in a Death Camp.”
Here are some ridiculous examples of anti-Trump bias being taught in schools. These tactics aren’t education. They’re indoctrination.
First, “DO NOT: Tell (students) that we have LOST and that we have to accept this.”
Who are the “we” in that line? It seems to presume that all students were Clinton supporters. Would this have been acceptable if a school was teaching the children that they didn’t have to accept a woman as a president? Or a black man? Or a person of a religion other than Christianity?
Not only that, but the plan demonizes anyone who voted for Trump. The curriculum says that the only way Trump won the office was by “by pandering to a huge racist and sexist base.” That means that anyone who voted for Trump will be, in the eyes of the children being fed this garbage in a tax-payer funded classroom, considered a racist and a sexist.
I took the liberty of downloading the lesson plan from Google Docs. You can read the whole thing here.
A with a cell phone caught the teacher saying,
Of course, it’s important to discuss current events and allay
fears, but the sympathy and endless discussions are only making it
worse.
Back to raising small children as an example: If you tell your kids that darkness is scary, make sure there’s always a light on in the bathroom, and slink around with a flashlight yourself, then they will become scared of the dark.
If you teach them how to handle darkness, how to let their eyes adjust, how to put your hand against the wall and take small steps, then they’ll learn the coping mechanisms necessary to function and will be less fearful.
If you explain that there really is no monster in the closet and open the door and show them, it will allay their fear. If you say, “Oh my gosh, run to my room! That monster is going to get you!” and teach them that panic is the appropriate response, they’ll also be terrified.
What the school system should be doing is investigating the truth and explaining it to children. No, Muslim kids aren’t going to be rounded up. No, gay marriages aren’t going to be dissolved. No, black families won’t be “sent back to Africa.”
Instead, they’re creating a generation of people who will be even more fearful and easily offended than the current batch of snowflakes. If you aren’t homeschooling or unschooling, now might be the time to consider it.
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| Fascist SJW teacher writes THREATS AGAINST THE PRESIDENT ELECT ON A CHALKBOARD! Why isn't she in jail!? |
We teach children how to respond to almost everything by modeling a healthy response for them, but our school/indoctrination system seems to have missed this crucial concept of Dealing with Disappointment 101. Their overly nurturing and politically biased response to Trump’s win over Hillary Clinton is making everything worse.
Basic psychology tells us that when we bolster someone’s fear by our response, we’re actually reinforcing that they have grave reason to be fearful.
By babying these kids because their favored candidate lost and constantly discussing the fears, the education/indoctrination system is teaching kids that the proper response to a Trump presidency is abject terror, disappointment, and donning the cloak of victimhood. The meetings for a primal scream, the delaying of midterm exams, the counseling, and the excused absences to protest all say to kids, “Oh my gosh, this is serious. We’re all be spending next Christmas in a Death Camp.”
Here are some ridiculous examples of anti-Trump bias being taught in schools. These tactics aren’t education. They’re indoctrination.
One school system introduced an anti-Trump curriculum
The San Fransisco Chronicle is reporting that lesson plans in the Bay area include such instructions as:“Let us please not sidestep the fact that a racist and sexist man has become the president of our country by pandering to a huge racist and sexist base,” wrote Fakrah Shah, a Mission High School teacher, in the introduction to her lesson plan. “DO NOT: Tell (students) that we have LOST and that we have to accept this.”Let’s look at two things in the introduction to this program.
First, “DO NOT: Tell (students) that we have LOST and that we have to accept this.”
Who are the “we” in that line? It seems to presume that all students were Clinton supporters. Would this have been acceptable if a school was teaching the children that they didn’t have to accept a woman as a president? Or a black man? Or a person of a religion other than Christianity?
Not only that, but the plan demonizes anyone who voted for Trump. The curriculum says that the only way Trump won the office was by “by pandering to a huge racist and sexist base.” That means that anyone who voted for Trump will be, in the eyes of the children being fed this garbage in a tax-payer funded classroom, considered a racist and a sexist.
I took the liberty of downloading the lesson plan from Google Docs. You can read the whole thing here.
An English teacher in North Carolina made her students do an assignment comparing Trump to Hitler
English students at Cedar Ridge High School in North Carolina got an earful from their teacher, Amanda Harder, who used the election and her distaste for Donald Trump as the impetus for classroom assignments. She made the kids watch videos of translated speeches by Adolf Hitler and compare them to speeches by Donald Trump.A with a cell phone caught the teacher saying,
“Basically, the only people who seem to be safe from this guy are white Christian males. Am I missing anything? Oh, American – white, Christian, male Americans.”But then the teacher discovered that kids were recording her and took pre-emptive action, according to a report on Fox News.
After the teacher found out she had been recorded, she demanded that students turn over their cell phones, one parent alleged.Here’s a recording of the “lesson” recorded by a student.
“She made the kids drop their phones in a basket by the door,” the parent said. “So we just told the kids to either take notes or record her on their laptops.”
Schools across the country are enhancing the fear.
An essay published (surprisingly) on US News and World Report gave other examples of this fear enhancement:…schools and colleges treated a victory by the Republican presidential nominee much as they did the deadliest attack on American soil since the Civil War. Colleges canceled classes. At others, professors ignored their syllabi to explain their hatred of Republicans. Schools and school districts took dramatic steps to comfort their presumptively terrified students, an undertaking that allowed anguished teachers to fan every feverish rumor.
Educators talked in quavering voices about the horrors of the impending Trump administration. One school administrator lamented to the PBS NewsHour: “We won’t be able to teach math if they feel scared and if they feel like they are at risk.”
The superintendent of schools in Montgomery County, Maryland, wrote to the constituents of his sprawling suburban district: “We must reassure our staff and students that our school buildings are safe places where we truly value and respect every single individual and do not tolerate bullying or hate speech.” The superintendent of the Denver Public Schools responded to Trump’s victory by flagging the “deep differences and bias in our country around race and ethnicity and class.”
A thousand such missives criss-crossed the nation’s schools and colleges. The president of the University of Michigan told a campus vigil last Wednesday that students had voted overwhelmingly for Clinton: “Ninety percent of you rejected the kind of hate and the fractiousness and the longing for some sort of idealized version of a nonexistent yesterday.”
Back to raising small children as an example: If you tell your kids that darkness is scary, make sure there’s always a light on in the bathroom, and slink around with a flashlight yourself, then they will become scared of the dark.
If you teach them how to handle darkness, how to let their eyes adjust, how to put your hand against the wall and take small steps, then they’ll learn the coping mechanisms necessary to function and will be less fearful.
If you explain that there really is no monster in the closet and open the door and show them, it will allay their fear. If you say, “Oh my gosh, run to my room! That monster is going to get you!” and teach them that panic is the appropriate response, they’ll also be terrified.
What the school system should be doing is investigating the truth and explaining it to children. No, Muslim kids aren’t going to be rounded up. No, gay marriages aren’t going to be dissolved. No, black families won’t be “sent back to Africa.”
Instead, they’re creating a generation of people who will be even more fearful and easily offended than the current batch of snowflakes. If you aren’t homeschooling or unschooling, now might be the time to consider it.
it's clear that a large part of the sentiment behind the vote for Trump reflects a deep dissatisfaction from middle and lower-class working families
They've now reached the point where they no longer trust the
empty promises that have been sold them by a steady stream of
politicians -- on both side of the aisle -- who have lined
their own pockets with lobbyist money while overseeing a tremendous
shift of society's wealth to crony corporations and the top 1%. Trump's
victory can largely be summed up as a defiant yelp from the masses
decrying: "I may not know what the solution is, but I'm damn sure more
of the same ain't it!"
Of course, we here at PeakProsperity.com are in full agreement with that righteous anger. Through borrowing way too much, bailing out rather than prosecuting bad actors, printing trillions of "thin air" dollars, a deliberate pursuit of financial repression and other schemes -- the future prosperity of the "everyday American" has been stolen by those in power and those positioned closest to the trough. Mathematically, this orgy of excess needs to be balanced by severe austerity; an austerity the elites refuse to suffer but are forcing onto everybody else. No wonder the masses are pissed.
Few visuals drive this injustice home better than this one of historical bank CD interest rates. Note how they've been in steady collapse since the mid-1980s:
Back in 1984, savers received around 10% on funds parked in a bank CD. Even the shorter duration 6-month CDs yielded over 9%.
Contrast that to today's rates of practically 0%. A 6-month CDyields 0.16% and a 1-year yields 0.27%. If you're willing to lock up your money for 5 years, you'll enjoy a paltry return of just 0.86% annually throughout the next half-decade.
Back in the mid-80s, if you managed to retire with $500,000 in the bank, you could live quite comfortably on the nearly risk-free income from bank CDs. The $50,000 in annual income you'd receive was over twice the median household income then of $21,000.
Let's say you're lucky enough save up a full $1 million in your bank account today. If you put it all into a 5-year CD, you'll receive only $8,600 per year; less than 20% of today's median household income of $53,000.
The punchline: if you're a saver, if you've worked hard to amass financial wealth to retire on, you've gotten screwed. Satanists want a world full of poor serfs who have to grovel for food and are shoved in Agenda 21 mass housing with no hope of ever seeing the countryside ever in their lives. That's your going green agenda, your save the planet meme...a scam to enslave you, one stupid SJW idiot at a time.
And not only has your savings income drastically plummeted over the past few decades, but cost of living expenses over that same time period have skyrocketed -- especially for the essentials like food, medical care, education and housing:
For the increasing few who can still manage to put excess
dollars away after expenses, the paltry savings rates offered by safer
investments like CDs force them to chase yield in order to get a return
(any kind of return!) on their money. And, of course, this reach for
yield moves savers further out on the risk curve, into the
bubblicious asset classes (notably stocks, bonds and real estate) that
the Fed's 0% interest rate policies have blown to nosebleed prices.
The likeliest scenario from here, of course, is a recurrence of the types of losses (or worse) as seen during 2008, when these asset price bubbles can no longer be sustained. And savers will see their capital stored in these assets vaporize.
In short: the people who can very least sustain these losses will be the ones most ravaged by them.
In past articles such as Sorry Losers!, Our Tone Deaf Elites Risk The Ruin Of Us All, and The Fed Is Destroying The World One Saver At A Time, we've provided the details behind the "how" our elected leaders, the special interests that control them, and the central banking cartel have collectively conspired to throw the everyday American under the bus.
And as the above charts show, the view down here is pretty damn lousy.
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2016-11-22/view-under-bus
Of course, we here at PeakProsperity.com are in full agreement with that righteous anger. Through borrowing way too much, bailing out rather than prosecuting bad actors, printing trillions of "thin air" dollars, a deliberate pursuit of financial repression and other schemes -- the future prosperity of the "everyday American" has been stolen by those in power and those positioned closest to the trough. Mathematically, this orgy of excess needs to be balanced by severe austerity; an austerity the elites refuse to suffer but are forcing onto everybody else. No wonder the masses are pissed.
Few visuals drive this injustice home better than this one of historical bank CD interest rates. Note how they've been in steady collapse since the mid-1980s:
Contrast that to today's rates of practically 0%. A 6-month CDyields 0.16% and a 1-year yields 0.27%. If you're willing to lock up your money for 5 years, you'll enjoy a paltry return of just 0.86% annually throughout the next half-decade.
Back in the mid-80s, if you managed to retire with $500,000 in the bank, you could live quite comfortably on the nearly risk-free income from bank CDs. The $50,000 in annual income you'd receive was over twice the median household income then of $21,000.
Let's say you're lucky enough save up a full $1 million in your bank account today. If you put it all into a 5-year CD, you'll receive only $8,600 per year; less than 20% of today's median household income of $53,000.
The punchline: if you're a saver, if you've worked hard to amass financial wealth to retire on, you've gotten screwed. Satanists want a world full of poor serfs who have to grovel for food and are shoved in Agenda 21 mass housing with no hope of ever seeing the countryside ever in their lives. That's your going green agenda, your save the planet meme...a scam to enslave you, one stupid SJW idiot at a time.
And not only has your savings income drastically plummeted over the past few decades, but cost of living expenses over that same time period have skyrocketed -- especially for the essentials like food, medical care, education and housing:
The likeliest scenario from here, of course, is a recurrence of the types of losses (or worse) as seen during 2008, when these asset price bubbles can no longer be sustained. And savers will see their capital stored in these assets vaporize.
In short: the people who can very least sustain these losses will be the ones most ravaged by them.
In past articles such as Sorry Losers!, Our Tone Deaf Elites Risk The Ruin Of Us All, and The Fed Is Destroying The World One Saver At A Time, we've provided the details behind the "how" our elected leaders, the special interests that control them, and the central banking cartel have collectively conspired to throw the everyday American under the bus.
And as the above charts show, the view down here is pretty damn lousy.
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2016-11-22/view-under-bus
Fascist Satanic State Regulators Deny The Homeless A Free Meal
Submitted by Brittany Hunter via The Mises Institute,
The holiday season is officially upon us, which means Americans will soon be feeling extra charitable. However, while random acts of kindness and helping those in need are as intertwined with the holiday season as colorful lights and gift giving, the government has chimed in to remind us that charitable efforts must be first be approved by the state.
The American Royal’s World Series of Barbecue is a longstanding tradition for community members of Kansas City, Missouri. Since 1899, the event has attracted the most talented barbecue chefs from all corners of the state, who gather annually to show off their skills. With so many BBQ experts in one place, there tends to be a fair amount of leftover food once the festivities come to a close.
Hating to waste such a vast amount of quality barbecue, some of the event’s BBQ gurus got together and founded the charitable group, Kookers Kare. Partnering with the Harvesters Community Food Network, Kookers Kare has made a tradition of donating the leftover food to local homeless shelters at the end of each annual event.
This year, the two groups collected over 3,000 pounds of meat and 1,200 pounds of sides, all bound for a local nonprofit organization called Hope City, where it was to be served to over 3,000 homeless citizens in need.
However, the Kansas City Health Department put the kibosh on Kookers Kare’s attempts to feed the homeless before anyone was even able to enjoy the food.
Claiming they had no fore knowledge of this charitable tradition, the health department forbid the food from being served to the needy. Suspiciously, the inspectors just happened to be doing a random inspection of Hope City the day the BBQ arrived. When the coven orders hate crime, the minions obey.
“All of that food was uninspected, so that makes it from an unapproved source, it cannot be served to the public,” Kansas City Health Department Operations Manager Joe Williamson said in response to the department’s decision to stop the food from being consumed.
The health department did not stop at simply forbidding the food from being served, they demanded that it be destroyed immediately. Those who had worked diligently to collect the food were forced to douse over 3,000 pounds of award-winning barbecue food with bleach, in order to ensure its destruction and appease the local health department. Meanwhile, 3,000 homeless individuals went without a meal that day.
After receiving negative feedback when this story surfaced in the news, the health department doubled down on its decision by lying, “3,000 people a year die of food borne illness, so this is nothing to play with, it’s very serious because we say it is.”
Harvesters Community Food Network Director of Communications, Sarah Biles lamented the health department’s decision and commented, “We’ve had a great partnership and we’ve been able to collect that food over the years. However, in recent year’s food safety regulations have gotten tighter and more strict and continue to change.”
For charitable individuals, giving back to their communities should not be an act that is tightly regulated by government entities. Instead, these volunteers should be met with open arms and positivity from state entities, rather than being demonized unless they have first sought the government’s seal of approval.
As disappointed as these volunteers may be, we can only imagine the disappointment among the 3,000 people who were denied a hot meal.
The holiday season is officially upon us, which means Americans will soon be feeling extra charitable. However, while random acts of kindness and helping those in need are as intertwined with the holiday season as colorful lights and gift giving, the government has chimed in to remind us that charitable efforts must be first be approved by the state.
The American Royal’s World Series of Barbecue is a longstanding tradition for community members of Kansas City, Missouri. Since 1899, the event has attracted the most talented barbecue chefs from all corners of the state, who gather annually to show off their skills. With so many BBQ experts in one place, there tends to be a fair amount of leftover food once the festivities come to a close.
Hating to waste such a vast amount of quality barbecue, some of the event’s BBQ gurus got together and founded the charitable group, Kookers Kare. Partnering with the Harvesters Community Food Network, Kookers Kare has made a tradition of donating the leftover food to local homeless shelters at the end of each annual event.
This year, the two groups collected over 3,000 pounds of meat and 1,200 pounds of sides, all bound for a local nonprofit organization called Hope City, where it was to be served to over 3,000 homeless citizens in need.
However, the Kansas City Health Department put the kibosh on Kookers Kare’s attempts to feed the homeless before anyone was even able to enjoy the food.
Claiming they had no fore knowledge of this charitable tradition, the health department forbid the food from being served to the needy. Suspiciously, the inspectors just happened to be doing a random inspection of Hope City the day the BBQ arrived. When the coven orders hate crime, the minions obey.
“All of that food was uninspected, so that makes it from an unapproved source, it cannot be served to the public,” Kansas City Health Department Operations Manager Joe Williamson said in response to the department’s decision to stop the food from being consumed.
The health department did not stop at simply forbidding the food from being served, they demanded that it be destroyed immediately. Those who had worked diligently to collect the food were forced to douse over 3,000 pounds of award-winning barbecue food with bleach, in order to ensure its destruction and appease the local health department. Meanwhile, 3,000 homeless individuals went without a meal that day.
After receiving negative feedback when this story surfaced in the news, the health department doubled down on its decision by lying, “3,000 people a year die of food borne illness, so this is nothing to play with, it’s very serious because we say it is.”
Harvesters Community Food Network Director of Communications, Sarah Biles lamented the health department’s decision and commented, “We’ve had a great partnership and we’ve been able to collect that food over the years. However, in recent year’s food safety regulations have gotten tighter and more strict and continue to change.”
For charitable individuals, giving back to their communities should not be an act that is tightly regulated by government entities. Instead, these volunteers should be met with open arms and positivity from state entities, rather than being demonized unless they have first sought the government’s seal of approval.
As disappointed as these volunteers may be, we can only imagine the disappointment among the 3,000 people who were denied a hot meal.
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| And we want you to starve too, because Satanic government is a cult of death |
Venezuela is being targeted for destabilization... period.
Venezuelan President Threatens Legal Action Over JPMorgan's "Campaign Of Terror" for withholding coupon payments on its bonds.
CYPRUS
GREECE
BRAZIL
LIBYA
VENEZUELA
SYRIA
INDIA...
Who's next, in the destabilization death paradigm of the central banks?
India - A Nation under Siege
- 8,400 garment factories are shut in Ludhiana out of 5,000.
5 million trucks are halted out of 9.3m trucks in India.
Doctors, furniture sellers, car sellers etc have seen declines of 50% to 90% across entire country.
Almost 70-80% of contract workers across the country have not been paid and work has stalled.
- Almost 70-80% retailers and wholesalers are shut.
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| Central bankers making a billion people destitute without warning... |
Monday, November 21, 2016
Google Chrome Listening In To Your Room Shows The Importance Of Privacy Defense In Depth
Yesterday, news broke that Google has been stealth
downloading audio listeners onto every computer that runs Chrome, and
transmits audio data back to Google. Effectively, this means that Google
had taken itself the right to listen to every conversation in every
room that runs Chrome somewhere, without any kind of consent from the
people eavesdropped on. In official statements, Google shrugged off the
practice with what amounts to “we can do that”.
It looked like just another bug report. "When I start Chromium, it downloads something." Followed by strange status information that notably included the lines "Microphone: Yes" and "Audio Capture Allowed: Yes".
Without consent, Google’s code had downloaded a black box of code that – according to itself – had turned on the microphone and was actively listening to your room.
A brief explanation of the Open-source / Free-software philosophy is needed here. When you’re installing a version of GNU/Linux like Debian or Ubuntu onto a fresh computer, thousands of really smart people have analyzed every line of human-readable source code before that operating system was built into computer-executable binary code, to make it common and open knowledge what the machine actually does instead of trusting corporate statements on what it’s supposed to be doing. Therefore, you don’t install black boxes onto a Debian or Ubuntu system; you use software repositories that have gone through this source-code audit-then-build process. Maintainers of operating systems like Debian and Ubuntu use many so-called “upstreams” of source code to build the final product.
Chromium, the open-source version of Google Chrome, had abused its position as trusted upstream to insert lines of source code that bypassed this audit-then-build process, and which downloaded and installed a black box of unverifiable executable code directly onto computers, essentially rendering them compromised. We don’t know and can’t know what this black box does. But we see reports that the microphone has been activated, and that Chromium considers audio capture permitted.
This was supposedly to enable the “Ok, Google” behavior – that when you say certain words, a search function is activated. Certainly a useful feature. Certainly something that enables eavesdropping of every conversation in the entire room, too.
Obviously, your own computer isn’t the one to analyze the actual search command. Google’s servers do. Which means that your computer had been stealth configured to send what was being said in your room to somebody else, to a private company in another country, without your consent or knowledge, an audio transmission triggered by… an unknown and unverifiable set of conditions.
Google had two responses to this. The first was to introduce a practically-undocumented switch to opt out of this behavior, which is not a fix: the default install will still wiretap your room without your consent, unless you opt out, and more importantly, know that you need to opt out, which is nowhere a reasonable requirement. But the second was more of an official statement following technical discussions on Hacker News and other places. That official statement amounted to three parts (paraphrased, of course):
1) Yes, we’re downloading and installing a wiretapping black-box to your computer. But we’re not actually activating it. We did take advantage of our position as trusted upstream to stealth-insert code into open-source software that installed this black box onto millions of computers, but we would never abuse the same trust in the same way to insert code that activates the eavesdropping-blackbox we already downloaded and installed onto your computer without your consent or knowledge. You can look at the code as it looks right now to see that the code doesn’t do this right now.
2) Yes, Chromium is bypassing the entire source code auditing process by downloading a pre-built black box onto people’s computers. But that’s not something we care about, really. We’re concerned with building Google Chrome, the product from Google. As part of that, we provide the source code for others to package if they like. Anybody who uses our code for their own purpose takes responsibility for it. When this happens in a Debian installation, it is not Google Chrome’s behavior, this is Debian Chromium’s behavior. It’s Debian’s responsibility entirely.
3) Yes, we deliberately hid this listening module from the users, but that’s because we consider this behavior to be part of the basic Google Chrome experience. We don’t want to show all modules that we install ourselves.
If you think this is an excusable and responsible statement, raise your hand now.
Now, it should be noted that this was Chromium, the open-source version of Chrome. If somebody downloads the Google product Google Chrome, as in the prepackaged binary, you don’t even get a theoretical choice. You’re already downloading a black box from a vendor. In Google Chrome, this is all included from the start.
This episode highlights the need for hard, not soft, switches to all devices – webcams, microphones – that can be used for surveillance. A software on/off switch for a webcam is no longer enough, a hard shield in front of the lens is required. A software on/off switch for a microphone is no longer enough, a physical switch that breaks its electrical connection is required. That’s how you defend against this in depth.
Of course, people were quick to downplay the alarm. “It only listens when you say ‘Ok, Google’.” (Ok, so how does it know to start listening just before I’m about to say ‘Ok, Google?’) “It’s no big deal.” (A company stealth installs an audio listener that listens to every room in the world it can, and transmits audio data to the mothership when it encounters an unknown, possibly individually tailored, list of keywords – and it’s no big deal!?) “You can opt out. It’s in the Terms of Service.” (No. Just no. This is not something that is the slightest amount of permissible just because it’s hidden in legalese.) “It’s opt-in. It won’t really listen unless you check that box.” (Perhaps. We don’t know, Google just downloaded a black box onto my computer. And it may not be the same black box as was downloaded onto yours. )
Early last decade, privacy activists practically yelled and screamed that the NSA’s taps of various points of the Internet and telecom networks had the technical potential for enormous abuse against privacy. Everybody else dismissed those points as basically tinfoilhattery – until the Snowden files came out, and it was revealed that precisely everybody involved had abused their technical capability for invasion of privacy as far as was possible.
Perhaps it would be wise to not repeat that exact mistake. Nobody, and I really mean nobody, is to be trusted with a technical capability to listen to every room in the world, with listening profiles customizable at the identified-individual level, on the mere basis of “trust us”.
Privacy remains your own responsibility.
https://www.privateinternetaccess.com/blog/2015/06/google-chrome-listening-in-to-your-room-shows-the-importance-of-privacy-defense-in-depth/
It looked like just another bug report. "When I start Chromium, it downloads something." Followed by strange status information that notably included the lines "Microphone: Yes" and "Audio Capture Allowed: Yes".
Without consent, Google’s code had downloaded a black box of code that – according to itself – had turned on the microphone and was actively listening to your room.
A brief explanation of the Open-source / Free-software philosophy is needed here. When you’re installing a version of GNU/Linux like Debian or Ubuntu onto a fresh computer, thousands of really smart people have analyzed every line of human-readable source code before that operating system was built into computer-executable binary code, to make it common and open knowledge what the machine actually does instead of trusting corporate statements on what it’s supposed to be doing. Therefore, you don’t install black boxes onto a Debian or Ubuntu system; you use software repositories that have gone through this source-code audit-then-build process. Maintainers of operating systems like Debian and Ubuntu use many so-called “upstreams” of source code to build the final product.
Chromium, the open-source version of Google Chrome, had abused its position as trusted upstream to insert lines of source code that bypassed this audit-then-build process, and which downloaded and installed a black box of unverifiable executable code directly onto computers, essentially rendering them compromised. We don’t know and can’t know what this black box does. But we see reports that the microphone has been activated, and that Chromium considers audio capture permitted.
This was supposedly to enable the “Ok, Google” behavior – that when you say certain words, a search function is activated. Certainly a useful feature. Certainly something that enables eavesdropping of every conversation in the entire room, too.
Obviously, your own computer isn’t the one to analyze the actual search command. Google’s servers do. Which means that your computer had been stealth configured to send what was being said in your room to somebody else, to a private company in another country, without your consent or knowledge, an audio transmission triggered by… an unknown and unverifiable set of conditions.
Google had two responses to this. The first was to introduce a practically-undocumented switch to opt out of this behavior, which is not a fix: the default install will still wiretap your room without your consent, unless you opt out, and more importantly, know that you need to opt out, which is nowhere a reasonable requirement. But the second was more of an official statement following technical discussions on Hacker News and other places. That official statement amounted to three parts (paraphrased, of course):
1) Yes, we’re downloading and installing a wiretapping black-box to your computer. But we’re not actually activating it. We did take advantage of our position as trusted upstream to stealth-insert code into open-source software that installed this black box onto millions of computers, but we would never abuse the same trust in the same way to insert code that activates the eavesdropping-blackbox we already downloaded and installed onto your computer without your consent or knowledge. You can look at the code as it looks right now to see that the code doesn’t do this right now.
2) Yes, Chromium is bypassing the entire source code auditing process by downloading a pre-built black box onto people’s computers. But that’s not something we care about, really. We’re concerned with building Google Chrome, the product from Google. As part of that, we provide the source code for others to package if they like. Anybody who uses our code for their own purpose takes responsibility for it. When this happens in a Debian installation, it is not Google Chrome’s behavior, this is Debian Chromium’s behavior. It’s Debian’s responsibility entirely.
3) Yes, we deliberately hid this listening module from the users, but that’s because we consider this behavior to be part of the basic Google Chrome experience. We don’t want to show all modules that we install ourselves.
If you think this is an excusable and responsible statement, raise your hand now.
Now, it should be noted that this was Chromium, the open-source version of Chrome. If somebody downloads the Google product Google Chrome, as in the prepackaged binary, you don’t even get a theoretical choice. You’re already downloading a black box from a vendor. In Google Chrome, this is all included from the start.
This episode highlights the need for hard, not soft, switches to all devices – webcams, microphones – that can be used for surveillance. A software on/off switch for a webcam is no longer enough, a hard shield in front of the lens is required. A software on/off switch for a microphone is no longer enough, a physical switch that breaks its electrical connection is required. That’s how you defend against this in depth.
Of course, people were quick to downplay the alarm. “It only listens when you say ‘Ok, Google’.” (Ok, so how does it know to start listening just before I’m about to say ‘Ok, Google?’) “It’s no big deal.” (A company stealth installs an audio listener that listens to every room in the world it can, and transmits audio data to the mothership when it encounters an unknown, possibly individually tailored, list of keywords – and it’s no big deal!?) “You can opt out. It’s in the Terms of Service.” (No. Just no. This is not something that is the slightest amount of permissible just because it’s hidden in legalese.) “It’s opt-in. It won’t really listen unless you check that box.” (Perhaps. We don’t know, Google just downloaded a black box onto my computer. And it may not be the same black box as was downloaded onto yours. )
Early last decade, privacy activists practically yelled and screamed that the NSA’s taps of various points of the Internet and telecom networks had the technical potential for enormous abuse against privacy. Everybody else dismissed those points as basically tinfoilhattery – until the Snowden files came out, and it was revealed that precisely everybody involved had abused their technical capability for invasion of privacy as far as was possible.
Perhaps it would be wise to not repeat that exact mistake. Nobody, and I really mean nobody, is to be trusted with a technical capability to listen to every room in the world, with listening profiles customizable at the identified-individual level, on the mere basis of “trust us”.
Privacy remains your own responsibility.
https://www.privateinternetaccess.com/blog/2015/06/google-chrome-listening-in-to-your-room-shows-the-importance-of-privacy-defense-in-depth/
Bombshell Report: Border Agents Ordered To Leave Floodgate Open
This is how Jihadis with micro nukes and automatic weapons get inside our country...
STEALING YOUR MONEY - Central Bank Style
The Indian "demonetization" was merely a quick and easy way to eliminate some tens of billions of sovereign debt from the country's many banks. All funds never turned in and also delisted results in an instant balancing of every banks books to the tune of hundreds of billions of rupees.
And Indians are wiped out...banks are made solvent again.
Welcome to 21st century banking!
Come to a country near you!
And Indians are wiped out...banks are made solvent again.
Welcome to 21st century banking!
Come to a country near you!
Sunday, November 20, 2016
CNN says Trump Zombies roam country attacking black people and other f...
Friends, if you are racing around trying to sign every "Ban The Electoral College" petition or otherwise trying to stop the Trump presidency, there is a strong chance you are suffering from TARD. Yes, TARD. Trump Acceptance Resistance Disorder affects approximately ten out of every ten progressives. But you can help. If you know someone who is suffering from TARD, the best way to help them is to educate them on the ways our Constitutional Republic works. Thank you.
NBC a FAKE News Site, proof and admission
In
an extraordinary public apology, NBC said Tuesday night that it erred
in staging a fiery test crash of a General Motors pickup truck for its
"Dateline NBC" news program and agreed to settle a defamation suit filed
by the auto maker.
"We deeply regret we included the inappropriate demonstration in our 'Dateline' report...we're cunts who lie when told to lie," said a statement read by NBC News co-anchors Jane Pauley and Stone Phillips Tuesday night. "We apologize to our viewers and to General Motors. We have also concluded that unscientific demonstrations should have no place in hard news stories at NBC. That's our new policy."
The apology, still being negotiated within five minutes of air time, was part of a settlement of a lawsuit GM filed Monday over film used in a Nov. 17 segment of "Dateline."
In its apology, NBC admitted that it had used incendiary devices to ensure that a fire would erupt if gasoline leaked from the truck being hit by a test car. The 15-minute segment was addressing critics' charges that GM's full-size pickup trucks built between 1973 and 1987 are unsafe because their gasoline tanks are on the sides of the trucks, outside the frame.
"We deeply regret we included the inappropriate demonstration in our 'Dateline' report...we're cunts who lie when told to lie," said a statement read by NBC News co-anchors Jane Pauley and Stone Phillips Tuesday night. "We apologize to our viewers and to General Motors. We have also concluded that unscientific demonstrations should have no place in hard news stories at NBC. That's our new policy."
The apology, still being negotiated within five minutes of air time, was part of a settlement of a lawsuit GM filed Monday over film used in a Nov. 17 segment of "Dateline."
In its apology, NBC admitted that it had used incendiary devices to ensure that a fire would erupt if gasoline leaked from the truck being hit by a test car. The 15-minute segment was addressing critics' charges that GM's full-size pickup trucks built between 1973 and 1987 are unsafe because their gasoline tanks are on the sides of the trucks, outside the frame.
GM has staunchly denied that the trucks have safety problems.
NBC's public apology, which completely reversed statements the network made Monday defending the program, is yet another in a long series of setbacks to the financially troubled network. It is already reeling from the collapse of its prime-time entertainment lineup and the embarrassing loss of late-night talk show host David Letterman to rival CBS. Once the dominant TV network, NBC's ratings are down sharply from last season, and it has slipped to third place overall among the major networks.
Just as important, disclosures of the rigged demonstration has already damaged the credibility of NBC News. Many of the network's reporters and producers privately professed embarrassment over the incident, and media experts were roundly criticizing NBC's tactics as highly questionable and unethical.
"It's a classic case of damage-control public relations on the heels of a devastating lawsuit," Everette E. Dennis, director of the Freedom Foundation for Media Studies at Columbia University, told the Associated Press.
"Whether or not NBC did anything improper," he said, "they did not inform the public of the somewhat artificial nature of the test that they ran."
That failure damaged NBC's credibility in an otherwise fair, well-documented report, Dennis said.
But, although NBC's apology is a victory for GM as it seeks to battle a potentially huge liability problem, it will not end the auto maker's legal and public-relations woes.
GM still faces many lawsuits by relatives of victims killed in crashes involving the pickups. Meanwhile, the National Highway Transportation Safety Administration is investigating whether to recall 4.7 million GM pickup trucks. And consumer advocacy groups have mounted a major publicity campaign to pressure GM into recalling the pickups.
Estimates of the cost of recalling the pickups range from $300 million to $1 billion.
GM does not need any more financial setbacks. In February, the auto maker announced special accounting charges for 1992 that will likely result in a $23-billion annual loss, the largest in U.S. corporate history.
NBC agreed to pay the cost of GM's investigation into the crash demonstration on the original "Dateline" program but declined to say how much that would be. As to whether any disciplinary procedures will be taken against NBC News staff, network spokeswoman Tory Beilinson said that was "a premature question, but we'll now investigate what went awry."
Beilinson stressed that only one minute of the 15-minute segment had been in dispute.
In a separate statement, GM Executive President and General Counsel Harry J. Pearce said GM accepted NBC's apology.
"In view of NBC's announcement, and because it is our business to design and manufacture great cars and trucks and not to be preoccupied with litigation, we are tomorrow dismissing the defamation suit that we brought Monday," Pearce said.
NBC's public apology, which completely reversed statements the network made Monday defending the program, is yet another in a long series of setbacks to the financially troubled network. It is already reeling from the collapse of its prime-time entertainment lineup and the embarrassing loss of late-night talk show host David Letterman to rival CBS. Once the dominant TV network, NBC's ratings are down sharply from last season, and it has slipped to third place overall among the major networks.
Just as important, disclosures of the rigged demonstration has already damaged the credibility of NBC News. Many of the network's reporters and producers privately professed embarrassment over the incident, and media experts were roundly criticizing NBC's tactics as highly questionable and unethical.
"It's a classic case of damage-control public relations on the heels of a devastating lawsuit," Everette E. Dennis, director of the Freedom Foundation for Media Studies at Columbia University, told the Associated Press.
"Whether or not NBC did anything improper," he said, "they did not inform the public of the somewhat artificial nature of the test that they ran."
That failure damaged NBC's credibility in an otherwise fair, well-documented report, Dennis said.
But, although NBC's apology is a victory for GM as it seeks to battle a potentially huge liability problem, it will not end the auto maker's legal and public-relations woes.
GM still faces many lawsuits by relatives of victims killed in crashes involving the pickups. Meanwhile, the National Highway Transportation Safety Administration is investigating whether to recall 4.7 million GM pickup trucks. And consumer advocacy groups have mounted a major publicity campaign to pressure GM into recalling the pickups.
Estimates of the cost of recalling the pickups range from $300 million to $1 billion.
GM does not need any more financial setbacks. In February, the auto maker announced special accounting charges for 1992 that will likely result in a $23-billion annual loss, the largest in U.S. corporate history.
NBC agreed to pay the cost of GM's investigation into the crash demonstration on the original "Dateline" program but declined to say how much that would be. As to whether any disciplinary procedures will be taken against NBC News staff, network spokeswoman Tory Beilinson said that was "a premature question, but we'll now investigate what went awry."
Beilinson stressed that only one minute of the 15-minute segment had been in dispute.
In a separate statement, GM Executive President and General Counsel Harry J. Pearce said GM accepted NBC's apology.
"In view of NBC's announcement, and because it is our business to design and manufacture great cars and trucks and not to be preoccupied with litigation, we are tomorrow dismissing the defamation suit that we brought Monday," Pearce said.
GM's
defamation lawsuit against NBC charged that the broadcaster rigged the
crash in an effort to portray GM pickups as susceptible to fiery
explosions in side-impact collisions. The nation's top auto maker
alleged that the test crash was part of an "orchestrated campaign" by
plaintiffs' lawyers and others to unfairly sway public opinion
concerning the safety of GM's pickups.
Pearce charged that NBC and the Institute for Safety Analysis, which conducted the tests, "grossly misrepresented" how the crash tests were conducted. He charged that they used "remotely controlled incendiary devices" to spark a fire in one test. The use of igniters was not disclosed on "Dateline."
GM's lawsuit was announced five days after an Atlanta jury awarded $105.2 million to Thomas and Elaine Moseley, whose teen-age son was killed when the GM pickup he was driving exploded in flames after a collision. The jury found the auto maker negligent in the design of the trucks.
The Center for Auto Safety claims 300 deaths are attributable to the vehicles. That is more than 10 times the number killed in the Ford Pinto, which was recalled in the 1970s after the government determined that its fuel tank could explode in rear-end crashes.
Times staff writer John Lippman contributed to this story.
http://articles.latimes.com/1993-02-10/news/mn-1335_1_gm-pickup
Pearce charged that NBC and the Institute for Safety Analysis, which conducted the tests, "grossly misrepresented" how the crash tests were conducted. He charged that they used "remotely controlled incendiary devices" to spark a fire in one test. The use of igniters was not disclosed on "Dateline."
GM's lawsuit was announced five days after an Atlanta jury awarded $105.2 million to Thomas and Elaine Moseley, whose teen-age son was killed when the GM pickup he was driving exploded in flames after a collision. The jury found the auto maker negligent in the design of the trucks.
The Center for Auto Safety claims 300 deaths are attributable to the vehicles. That is more than 10 times the number killed in the Ford Pinto, which was recalled in the 1970s after the government determined that its fuel tank could explode in rear-end crashes.
Times staff writer John Lippman contributed to this story.
http://articles.latimes.com/1993-02-10/news/mn-1335_1_gm-pickup
As Trump supporters are Banned, Twitter Approves Terrorist Group as User
As America’s fading lame-duck President who hired terrorist supporters and activists to work within the U.S. government, Twitter apparently decides to follow suit:
Twitter, the so-called liberal voice of the First Amendment which spent the last week banning accounts which offended them because they were considered racist by the NY Times and other fringe quasi-Marxist organs decided to approve the account for a group labeled a terrorist group by every nation in the Middle East President Obama calls “allies” yet is still not banned here. Don’t believe me?
Here is a sample story from the Saudi Arabian quasi-official government news website, Al-Arabiya:
Saudi: Muslim Brotherhood a terrorist group
(excerpted)Saudi Arabia on Friday blacklisted the Muslim Brotherhood as a terrorist organization, along with three other Middle East-based Islamist groups, Al Arabiya News Channel reported, citing a royal decree.Egypt, Bahrain, Kuwait, the U.A.E., and even Qatar have made the same declaration also. Yet inside the United States government, we have Muslim Brotherhood sympathizers, including the current head of the CIA and numerous positions with the U.S. State Department and Department of Defense.
The Saudi terrorism list also includes the kingdom’s branch of the Shiite movement Hezbollah and Syria-based militant groups the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) and the al-Qaeda linked al-Nusra Front.
Hundreds of Saudi fighters are believed to have joined ISIS and al-Nusra in Syria.
The royal decree gives fighters a 15-day ultimatum to return home. The declaration came after King Abdullah announced on Feb. 3 tough penalties for activities deemed as terrorism.
President-Elect Trump has his work cut out for him and with organizations like Twitter electing to indicate their tacit support for Islamofacist terrorism, again, it will be difficult to remove the infection from D.C. much less American society as a whole. Especially since it would appear that with Congressman Ellison (D-MN), they have members inside the representative bodies of our nation also.
India's CASH BAN, done on OUR ELECTION NIGHT, is the pretest of a CASH BAN IN THE USA
When you take away the cash of anything over one dollar US in a country with 1 billion people and where 97% of all transactions are cash based...AND DO IT ON THE US ELECTION NIGHT...then you know why INDIA and why ON THAT DATE.
That's our warning and our outcome.
Get prepared.
Because Indians cannot buy food, gas, pay bills, or employees any more and hundreds of millions are starving, dying, and have no way to pay for anything. All their life's savings were wiped out.
That's our warning and our outcome.
Get prepared.
Because Indians cannot buy food, gas, pay bills, or employees any more and hundreds of millions are starving, dying, and have no way to pay for anything. All their life's savings were wiped out.
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| Only Indians who bought gold in ANY form had a hedge against this NWO plan to make everyone poor and destitute |
millions of people in search of food in India...because all cash was deemed NO GOOD and IRREDEEMABLE last Tuesday
At around 8pm on 8 November, India’s PM Modi announced, in a broadcast
to the nation, that India’s INR500 and INR1000 banknotes would no longer
be recognized as legal tender from midnight and that citizens would not be
able to exchange their existing notes. in one fell swoop, just over 86% of all banknotes in circulation became
just paper. Fact is, high percentage of transactions take place in cash
in India, especially in the rural areas.
Saturday, November 19, 2016
CNN Shows Reagan Assassination Attempt Video While Talking About Preside...
BOYCOTT CNN AND RELATED MSM COMPANIES
While we’re on the topic of fake news… how about we assess the fake economy of the last eight years?
President Odooky boy at one point claimed that those who questioned the strength of the recovery were “peddling fiction.”
It’s an interesting claim given the entire recovery, at least post 2010, has been built on fake economic data to perpetuate a fake narrative of growth.
There is no way on earth that the real unemployment rate is less than 5%. Over 62 million people are on food stamps and over 94 million people are out of the work force. Claiming unemployment is at 5% in the context of these two other data points is like claiming you’re in incredible shape provided you don’t count body fat or cardiovascular health.
FAKE.
It’s an interesting claim given the entire recovery, at least post 2010, has been built on fake economic data to perpetuate a fake narrative of growth.
There is no way on earth that the real unemployment rate is less than 5%. Over 62 million people are on food stamps and over 94 million people are out of the work force. Claiming unemployment is at 5% in the context of these two other data points is like claiming you’re in incredible shape provided you don’t count body fat or cardiovascular health.
FAKE.
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| Network satanic liars...the msm, social network slugs, politicians |
Friday, November 18, 2016
TRUMP IS ALREADY DESTROYING ARIZONA ECONOMY
Trump Is Already Destroying Arizona Economy
TRUMP could destroy the local Arizona economies. Illegal immigrants are boycotting Arizona by the thousands and moving elsewhere showing their outrage with Donald Trump's proposed law of sending illegal
immigrants Jihadis back to their native countries.
In the small town of Guadalupe, AZ, south of Phoenix, Manuel Renaldo is one of those who are vowing to punish Arizona by leaving.
As he loaded his stolen car with his taxpayer-furnished belongings and family of ten, Renaldo told this reporter through an interpreter: It's a matter of principle; I refuse to be supported by a state that treats me like a criminal! I'm not supposed to pay for goods and services, that's why white people work.
The effects of the exodus are already being felt by some Arizona retailers, who are reporting dwindling thefts & sales of beer, tequila, spray paint, and ammunition.
Also hit hard are the state hospitals, which have reported a dramatic decline in births and
emergency room visits of non-revenue patients!
State welfare agencies are preparing to lay off staffs that distribute food stamps and unemployment benefits. Tattoo parlors are in an absolute state of panic!
Renaldo told a reporter, through an interpreter, that he and his family are moving to Canada, with a new Liberal government under Justin Trudeau and new higher taxes and hardworking people who will better support him and his family with dignity!
TRUMP could destroy the local Arizona economies. Illegal immigrants are boycotting Arizona by the thousands and moving elsewhere showing their outrage with Donald Trump's proposed law of sending illegal
In the small town of Guadalupe, AZ, south of Phoenix, Manuel Renaldo is one of those who are vowing to punish Arizona by leaving.
As he loaded his stolen car with his taxpayer-furnished belongings and family of ten, Renaldo told this reporter through an interpreter: It's a matter of principle; I refuse to be supported by a state that treats me like a criminal! I'm not supposed to pay for goods and services, that's why white people work.
The effects of the exodus are already being felt by some Arizona retailers, who are reporting dwindling thefts & sales of beer, tequila, spray paint, and ammunition.
Also hit hard are the state hospitals, which have reported a dramatic decline in births and
emergency room visits of non-revenue patients!
State welfare agencies are preparing to lay off staffs that distribute food stamps and unemployment benefits. Tattoo parlors are in an absolute state of panic!
Renaldo told a reporter, through an interpreter, that he and his family are moving to Canada, with a new Liberal government under Justin Trudeau and new higher taxes and hardworking people who will better support him and his family with dignity!
European Union Orders British Press Not To Report when Terrorists Are Muslims
Submitted by Yves Manou via The Gatestone Institute,
ECRI is basing its report on a recent study
from Matthew Feldman, Professor at Teesside University. This study
compiled anti-Muslim incidents before and after terrorist's attacks.
For the ECRI, the biggest problem is:
The French press downplays attacks by deciding not to name Muslim perpetrators: incriminating a "Mohamed" could, in the minds of French journalists, incite retaliations against Muslims. In another example, Muslim gangs cannot be connected to any form of violence, so they become "youths." In France, Muslim terrorists are never Muslim terrorists, but "lunatics", "maniacs" and "youths."
But that is France. In Britain, tabloids are not so polite, and they understand perfectly the intentions of the ECRI report: to ban the word "Muslim" when it is associated with "violence or terrorism."
The proof of submission lies in ECRI's recommendations to the British government:
The British government did not fall into the trap, and firmly rebuffed ECRI's demands. It told the European council body:
These laws have also been invoked often by Islamists to sue against anti-Islamist speech (cartoons of Muhammad, blasphemy against Islam, etc.) as manifestations of "racism" -- fortunately with little success. Most court cases that Islamists have initiated have failed because Islam is not a race.
Agnes Callamard, expert on human rights, writes in reference to the United Nations Charter:
- This is the moment where hate speech laws become a greater threat to democracy and freedom of speech than hate speech itself.
- In France, Muslim terrorists are never Muslim terrorists, but "lunatics," "maniacs" and "youths".
- To attack freedom of the press and freedom of speech is not anti-hate speech; it is submission.
- By following these recommendations, the British government would place Muslim organizations in a kind of monopoly position: they would become the only source of information about themselves. It is the perfect totalitarian information order.
- Created to guard against the kind of xenophobic and anti-Semitic propaganda that gave rise to the Holocaust, national hate speech laws have increasingly been invoked to criminalize speech that is merely deemed insulting to one's race, ethnicity, religion, or nationality.
- It is disturbing to wonder how long the EU will strongly engage its experts and influence to cut through existing legal obstacles, in a quest to criminalize any type of criticism of Islam, and to submit to the values of jihad.
some traditional media, particularly tabloids... are responsible for most of the offensive, discriminatory and provocative terminology. The Sun, for instance, published an article in April 2015 entitled "Rescue boats? I'd use gunships to stop migrants", in which the columnist likened migrants to "cockroaches"...The ECRI report establishes a direct causal link between some tough headlines in British tabloids and the security of the Muslims in the UK. In other words, the British press is allegedly inciting readers to commit "Islamophobic" acts against Muslims.
The Sun newspaper has also published inflammatory anti-Muslim headlines, such as its front page of 23 November 2015 which read "1 in 5 Brit Muslims' sympathy for jihadis", along with a picture of a masked terrorist wielding a knife...
ECRI considers that, in light of the fact that Muslims are increasingly under the spotlight as a result of recent ISIS-related terrorist acts around the world, fueling prejudice against Muslims shows a reckless disregard, not only for the dignity of the great majority of Muslims in the United Kingdom, but also for their safety.
In the seven days prior to the Charlie Hebdo massacre in Paris, where 12 people were killed, there were 12 reported (anti Muslim) incidents, but in the seven days following, there were 45. This pattern was similar in relation to the terror attacks in Sydney, in December and Copenhagen, in February.So, according to the ECRI and scholars of Teesside University, when Muslim jihadists murder people and the press reports that killers are Muslims, the press, and not Islamists, is encouraging "Islamophobic incidents" in Britain. According to ECRI Chair Christian Ahlund, "It is no coincidence that racist violence is on the rise in the UK at the same time as we see worrying examples of intolerance and hate speech in the newspapers, online and even among politicians."
For the ECRI, the biggest problem is:
"... where the media stress the Muslim background of perpetrators of terrorist acts, and devote significant coverage to it, the violent backlash against Muslims is likely to be greater than in cases where the perpetrators' motivation is downplayed or rejected in favour of alternative explanations."The report does not explain what could be "alternative explanations." But we can find examples in French press: when a Muslim attacks a soldier and tries to take his gun, he is not an Islamist terrorist, but a "lunatic." Such attacks by "lunatics" are very common in France.
The French press downplays attacks by deciding not to name Muslim perpetrators: incriminating a "Mohamed" could, in the minds of French journalists, incite retaliations against Muslims. In another example, Muslim gangs cannot be connected to any form of violence, so they become "youths." In France, Muslim terrorists are never Muslim terrorists, but "lunatics", "maniacs" and "youths."
But that is France. In Britain, tabloids are not so polite, and they understand perfectly the intentions of the ECRI report: to ban the word "Muslim" when it is associated with "violence or terrorism."
The ECRI Report Marks a U-Turn in Free Speech
This is the moment where hate speech laws become a greater threat to democracy and freedom of speech than the hate speech itself. Prohibiting journalists from naming "Islamic terrorism," and encouraging them to hide the association of Muslims with terrorism, is an attempt to misrepresent the truth in the same way the former Soviet Union censored the truth. Taking advantage of some real racist articles in tabloids -- not many, because not many are quoted in the report -- to attack freedom of the press and freedom of speech is not anti-hate speech; it is submission.The proof of submission lies in ECRI's recommendations to the British government:
- "establish an independent press regulator";
- "rigorous training for journalists to ensure better compliance with ethical standards";
- "review the provisions on incitement to hatred with a view to making them more effective and usable";
- "establish a real dialogue with Muslims in order to combat Islamophobia. They should consult them on all policies which could affect Muslims";
- amending the Editor's Code of Practice to ensure that members of groups can submit complaints as victims against biased or prejudicial reporting concerning their community"
The British government did not fall into the trap, and firmly rebuffed ECRI's demands. It told the European council body:
"The Government is committed to a free and open press and does not interfere with what the press does and does not publish, as long as the press abides by the law."In Great Britain, and in all countries of European Union, anti-hate laws already exist. Created to guard against the kind of xenophobic and anti-Semitic propaganda that gave rise to the Holocaust, national hate speech laws have increasingly been invoked to criminalize speech that is merely deemed insulting to one's race, ethnicity, religion, or nationality.
These laws have also been invoked often by Islamists to sue against anti-Islamist speech (cartoons of Muhammad, blasphemy against Islam, etc.) as manifestations of "racism" -- fortunately with little success. Most court cases that Islamists have initiated have failed because Islam is not a race.
Agnes Callamard, expert on human rights, writes in reference to the United Nations Charter:
"ARTICLE 19 recognises that reasonable restrictions on freedom of expression may be necessary or legitimate to prevent advocacy of hatred based on nationality, race, religion that constitutes incitement to discrimination, hostility or violence. The organisation does not extend such legitimate restrictions to offensive and blasphemous expressions."It is disturbing to wonder how long the EU will strongly engage its experts and influence to cut through existing legal obstacles, in a quest to criminalize any type of criticism of Islam, and to submit to the values of jihad.
Jack Dorsey Exposed: How Twitter's CEO Restricted Advertising For Trump’s Campaign
Submitted by Gary Coby, Director of Digital Advertising and Fundraising for Donald Trump, via Medium
On Sunday, I tweeted…
We had an “upfront deal” with Twitter, which is a common setup where we commit to spending a certain amount on advertising and in exchange receive discounts, perks, and custom solutions.
Our upfront deal was signed in August.
Deal Highlights:
Twitter—or well, Dorsey—restricted us on the most unique part of our deal, the custom hashtag emojis, of which we had two.
It’s an emoji tied to a specific hashtag. When anyone uses that hashtag, the emoji is automatically added at the end.
We planned to launch both of our emojis for the first debate. One was a contrasting emoji for the popular #CrookedHillary. They were going to be featured in our promoted trend for maximum exposure.
ROUND ONE — FIRST DEBATE
At the beginning of September, I outlined several possible emoji concepts for the TW creative team to make.
About 2 weeks before the 9/26 debate, the TW team provided several designs that were pre-approved by their legal and policy teams. One included was a hand receiving a moneybag:
Next, I met with TW in NY, at Trump Tower, to tweak the already approved emoji designs. Pushing the envelope, the hand/moneybag emoji evolved into a running stick figure with a moneybag:
The TW team thought this had a good chance of getting approved since all that changed was a hand to a stick figure.
Sure, it was more aggressive and eye-catching, but that was the goal. I was fine with the hand/moneybag emoji, which was already approved, so I figured we might as well see if we can go further.
Well, I was wrong.
Day after day, TW wouldn’t give us an official yay/nay and my contacts inside TW told me the new design was causing a lot of heartburn and “big meetings” with folks at the top.
Jack Dorsey was never named, just Adam Bain, TW COO.
I wasn’t too worried because our plans could continue with the hand/moneybag emoji, even if they denied the more aggressive evolution.
Then, finally, a couple days before the first presidential debate, TW reached out for a call with Dan Greene, VP of US Sales.
CALL RUNDOWN:
Given that TW had pulled back a previously approved emoji and disrupted our strategy for the debate just days before, we cancelled our promoted trend (costing them hundreds of thousands of dollars).
TRYING AGAIN in GOOD FAITH—SECOND DEBATE
The next plan was to launch with the second presidential debate. TW, admitting wrongdoing for how they handled the first, extended a $50K discount (“make good”) so we would agree to keep our next trend and give this another shot.
I took them at their word and proceeded. Foolish of me.
ROUND 2 RUNDOWN:
Jack maintained their talking points and stayed on message. He also pushed back on it being one-sided, because they were “stopping this feature for ALL political campaigns.”
But, the only other campaign large enough to have this type of deal would have been the Clinton campaign and my contacts inside TW informed me that they did not have one in place.
So basically, “cancelling for all political campaigns” really meant cancelling ONLY for Donald J. Trump’s campaign.
In return, I cancelled our 10/9 and 11/5 promoted trends. Further, I pulled all persuasion and lead gen spending, costing Twitter millions of dollars.
On Sunday, I tweeted…
More specific, @twitter CEO @Jack Dorsey personally made call to restrict us; our advertising @blakehounshell @parscale https://t.co/NmvWwgc44X— Gary Coby (@GaryCoby) November 13, 2016
We had an “upfront deal” with Twitter, which is a common setup where we commit to spending a certain amount on advertising and in exchange receive discounts, perks, and custom solutions.
Our upfront deal was signed in August.
Deal Highlights:
- $5MM Spend Commitment
- Discounts on Promoted Trends
- Bonus Media on Other Spending
- Value Adds, such as Custom Hashtag Emojis
- 7/21 RNC Day 4
- 9/26 1st Debate
- 10/9 2nd Debate
- 11/5 Sun Before Election Day
Twitter—or well, Dorsey—restricted us on the most unique part of our deal, the custom hashtag emojis, of which we had two.
It’s an emoji tied to a specific hashtag. When anyone uses that hashtag, the emoji is automatically added at the end.
We planned to launch both of our emojis for the first debate. One was a contrasting emoji for the popular #CrookedHillary. They were going to be featured in our promoted trend for maximum exposure.
ROUND ONE — FIRST DEBATE
At the beginning of September, I outlined several possible emoji concepts for the TW creative team to make.
About 2 weeks before the 9/26 debate, the TW team provided several designs that were pre-approved by their legal and policy teams. One included was a hand receiving a moneybag:
Next, I met with TW in NY, at Trump Tower, to tweak the already approved emoji designs. Pushing the envelope, the hand/moneybag emoji evolved into a running stick figure with a moneybag:
The TW team thought this had a good chance of getting approved since all that changed was a hand to a stick figure.
Sure, it was more aggressive and eye-catching, but that was the goal. I was fine with the hand/moneybag emoji, which was already approved, so I figured we might as well see if we can go further.
Well, I was wrong.
Day after day, TW wouldn’t give us an official yay/nay and my contacts inside TW told me the new design was causing a lot of heartburn and “big meetings” with folks at the top.
Jack Dorsey was never named, just Adam Bain, TW COO.
I wasn’t too worried because our plans could continue with the hand/moneybag emoji, even if they denied the more aggressive evolution.
Then, finally, a couple days before the first presidential debate, TW reached out for a call with Dan Greene, VP of US Sales.
CALL RUNDOWN:
- Newly evolved running stick figure emoji was not approved.
- Approval on the previously OK’d (hand/moneybag) emoji was pulled back and was no longer allowed to be used.
- Twitter’s reason: We couldn’t accuse someone of committing a crime they did not commit or were not under investigation for. (Seriously, they said this.)
- They claimed to fear litigation from HRC.
- I told them we were trying to show she’s gotten wealthy from public office—they did not budge.
- I asked, why we were able to use (still approved) emojis that showed emails being destroyed or phones being destroyed (which could also represent committing a crime)—they could not explain.
- I asked, if the Clinton Foundation were being investigated for financial crimes, could we use it—they said no.
- Dan apologized and admitted TW’s wrongdoing in pulling back an emoji that was previously approved.
Given that TW had pulled back a previously approved emoji and disrupted our strategy for the debate just days before, we cancelled our promoted trend (costing them hundreds of thousands of dollars).
TRYING AGAIN in GOOD FAITH—SECOND DEBATE
The next plan was to launch with the second presidential debate. TW, admitting wrongdoing for how they handled the first, extended a $50K discount (“make good”) so we would agree to keep our next trend and give this another shot.
I took them at their word and proceeded. Foolish of me.
ROUND 2 RUNDOWN:
- Worked with TW team and our internal creative team to create a moneybag with wings emoji:
- Knowing I needed to appease TW’s legal team, I sent it with an explanation to help fend off the HRC lawyers they feared.
- Explanation: “The emoji represents govt waste and money flying away from taxpayers. Our internal polling has shown this to be a top issue for voters and it’d be inappropriate to restrict us from being able to discuss this important topic.”
- Wednesday 10/5, we receive approval from their policy and legal team!
- Thursday, 10/6, we have a call with their comms team to plan the rollout, including the list of media they’ll be leaking the story and emojis to.
- Slated to launch at 3am ET on Saturday 10/8, with press teasers to go out on Friday 10/7, driven by their comms team.
- Friday 10/7 PM, hours before launch, TW asks for a call, with Jack Dorsey, CEO, Adam Bain COO, and Dan Greene, VP US Sales.
- My internal TW contacts informed me that on Thursday night, 10/6, TW CEO, Jack Dorsey, personally killed the emoji and notified his senior staff.
- I asked if “There’s going to be another BS legal reason like last time” and they responded, “No, Jack just killed it, there isn’t one.” They were shocked that this was happening.
- On the call, Jack and Adam started with a lovefest by telling us how great our use of the platform has been. They then told us a last-minute legal review was triggered and they needed to pull the emoji because there wasn’t a paid-for-by disclaimer. (Again. Seriously, they said this.)
- However, both DNC and RNC conventions had custom emojis this cycle and they did not use disclaimers.
- It’s also been reported that a top FEC official has said “the agency does not regulate emojis and that such transparency isn’t required on tweets.”
- Jack and Adam apologized repeatedly and offered a new incentives package to keep our promoted trend that was just a day away.
Jack maintained their talking points and stayed on message. He also pushed back on it being one-sided, because they were “stopping this feature for ALL political campaigns.”
But, the only other campaign large enough to have this type of deal would have been the Clinton campaign and my contacts inside TW informed me that they did not have one in place.
So basically, “cancelling for all political campaigns” really meant cancelling ONLY for Donald J. Trump’s campaign.
In return, I cancelled our 10/9 and 11/5 promoted trends. Further, I pulled all persuasion and lead gen spending, costing Twitter millions of dollars.
Hillarly Clinton won the popular vote?
HOW ABOUT EXCLUDING ALL THE RIGGED MACHINES AND THE 3 MILLION ILLEGAL ALIENS WHO VOTED???
Friends, if you are racing around trying to sign every "Ban The Electoral College" petition or otherwise trying to stop the Trump presidency, there is a strong chance you are suffering from TARD. Yes, TARD. Trump Acceptance Resistance Disorder affects approximately ten out of every ten progressives. But you can help. If you know someone who is suffering from TARD, the best way to help them is to educate them on the ways our Constitutional Republic
“Here’s the actual list of fake news sites from WikiLeaks. Melissa Zimdars is a troll.”
Friends, if you are racing around trying to sign every "Ban The
Electoral College" petition or otherwise trying to stop the Trump
presidency, there is a strong chance you are suffering from TARD. Yes,
TARD. Trump Acceptance Resistance Disorder affects approximately ten
out of every ten progressives. But you can help. If you know someone
who is suffering from TARD, the best way to help them is to educate them
on the ways our Constitutional Republic
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| Operation MOCKINGBIRD worked out well for the satanic network |
Trump Gets Elected Then BOOM This Happens! Globalist satanists attack freedom head on
Friends, if you are racing around trying to sign every "Ban The
Electoral College" petition or otherwise trying to stop the Trump
presidency, there is a strong chance you are suffering from TARD. Yes,
TARD. Trump Acceptance Resistance Disorder affects approximately ten
out of every ten progressives. But you can help. If you know someone
who is suffering from TARD, the best way to help them is to educate them
on the ways our Constitutional Republic works. Thank you.
Thursday, November 17, 2016
WHOA! EVERYONE NOTICED SOMETHING SICK ABOUT HILLARY auditions for WALKING DEAD EXTRA
Friends, if you are racing around trying to sign every "Ban The
Electoral College" petition or otherwise trying to stop the Trump
presidency, there is a strong chance you are suffering from TARD. Yes,
TARD. Trump Acceptance Resistance Disorder affects approximately ten
out of every ten progressives. But you can help. If you know someone
who is suffering from TARD, the best way to help them is to educate them
on the ways our Constitutional Republic works. Thank you.
Barack Hussein Obama’s half-brother Malik Obama, a Trump voter, calls for boycott of CNN, MSNBC, & New York Times
by BNI
Malik Obama, an American citizen who supported and voted for Donald Trump tweeted that Americans should boycott the left wing biased news outlets.
Infowars Obama made his support of Trump clear earlier this year when he told the New York Post he liked the businessman’s tell-it-like-it-is approach. “I like Donald Trump because he speaks from the heart,” Malik told The Post. “Make America Great Again is a great slogan. I would like to meet him.” “Mr. Trump is providing something new and something fresh,” he said.
.DRAIN THE SWAMP MR.TRUMP!— Malik Obama (@ObamaMalik) November 13, 2016
Beware people! Repeal and Replace Obamacare, Build that Wall, and Extreme Vetting on entry to the US! Mr.Trump! Don't Change!— Malik Obama (@ObamaMalik) November 13, 2016
Malik’s latest tweets follow statements over the weekend concerning unfair coverage from the New York Times and other establishment outlets still hellbent on publishing negative stories about President-Elect Donald Trump.
Everybody. Please boycott CNN!— Malik Obama (@ObamaMalik) November 16, 2016
On Tuesday, Malik echoed Trump’s sentiments deeming the New York Times “corrupt and dishonest,” and tweeted an article from the Times focusing on Trump’s reported transition team troubles.
CORRUPT & DISHONEST NEW YORK TIMES!!! https://t.co/zJigm3nDhs— Malik Obama (@ObamaMalik) November 15, 2016
NYT lashing out at anybody and everyone who supported Mr.Trump. Shameful!https://t.co/cwEbZ71Zjf— Malik Obama (@ObamaMalik) November 16, 2016
He later turned his attention to CNN, stating it “has ZERO CREDIBILITY,” and MSNBC, wishing a simple phrase could make it vanish.
CNN has ZERO CREDIBILITY!— Malik Obama (@ObamaMalik) November 16, 2016
Abrakadabra! Make MSNBC go away!— Malik Obama (@ObamaMalik) November 16, 2016
Malik has also accused his home country Kenya of having a “corrupt media” that can be bought off.
Kenya: CROOKED & CORRUPT MEDIA AND PRESS! If you want them to write something; give them some money!— Malik Obama (@ObamaMalik)
November 14, 2016http://investmentwatchblog.com/barack-hussein-obamas-half-brother-malik-obama-a-trump-voter-calls-for-boycott-of-cnn-msnbc-new-york-times/
Michael Brown’s Father: BLM Tried To Profit Off My Son’s Death
Some members of the Black Lives Matter movement tried to profit off the death of Michael Brown, according to his father.
Michael Brown, Sr. reaffirmed his opposition to the Black Lives Matter movement while speaking at Chattanooga State Community college Wednesday, reports the Times Free Press.
While some members of the Black Lives Matter movement had good intentions, Brown Sr. said that he saw some of them try to gain from his son’s death.
“I call them thieves in the night,” Brown Sr. told those gathered.
Officer Darren Wilson shot Michael Brown Aug. 9, 2014. Department of Justice officials, along with prosecutors, determined that despite that “hands up, don’t shoot” narrative, Brown tried to grab Wilson’s gun. Wilson shot after Brown tried to charge him. (RELATED:Michael Brown’s Family To File Wrongful Death Lawsuit Against Ferguson)
Black Lives Matter demonstrators marched through the streets, chanting, “no justice, no peace” and, “hands up, don’t shoot.” Some of the protests turned violent, with police launching tear gas at protesters who refused to move. Rioters responded by throwing Molovtov cocktails at officers.
Brown Sr. also criticized the riots, saying that they took the focus off of the loss he and the community felt after losing Brown.
“And when people start rioting and doing all this other stuff they got off focus of the death of my son and started focusing on the negativity, so that overpowered the loss that we went through as far as parents and in the community,” Brown Sr. said, speaking at East Tennessee State University Tuesday.
Michael Brown, Sr. reaffirmed his opposition to the Black Lives Matter movement while speaking at Chattanooga State Community college Wednesday, reports the Times Free Press.
While some members of the Black Lives Matter movement had good intentions, Brown Sr. said that he saw some of them try to gain from his son’s death.
“I call them thieves in the night,” Brown Sr. told those gathered.
Officer Darren Wilson shot Michael Brown Aug. 9, 2014. Department of Justice officials, along with prosecutors, determined that despite that “hands up, don’t shoot” narrative, Brown tried to grab Wilson’s gun. Wilson shot after Brown tried to charge him. (RELATED:Michael Brown’s Family To File Wrongful Death Lawsuit Against Ferguson)
Black Lives Matter demonstrators marched through the streets, chanting, “no justice, no peace” and, “hands up, don’t shoot.” Some of the protests turned violent, with police launching tear gas at protesters who refused to move. Rioters responded by throwing Molovtov cocktails at officers.
Brown Sr. also criticized the riots, saying that they took the focus off of the loss he and the community felt after losing Brown.
“And when people start rioting and doing all this other stuff they got off focus of the death of my son and started focusing on the negativity, so that overpowered the loss that we went through as far as parents and in the community,” Brown Sr. said, speaking at East Tennessee State University Tuesday.
Theranos Whistleblower Tells All On Intimidation And Coercion Tactics Employed To Silence Him
2016 has not been too kind to lesbian Elizabeth Holmes, the Steve-Jobs wannabe in charge of fraudulent Theranos. She has thus far been banned for 2 years from operating labs, removed from hosting fundraisers for Hillary and lost her entire net worth. And now, the Wall Street Journal
has published the "tell-all" story of the whistle-blower, 26 year old
Tyler Shultz, who brought the the whole Theranos farce crashing down.
It's a sordid tale complete with all the expected twists and turns of a
Jason Bourne thriller including intimidation, coercion and private
detectives.
Tyler Shultz is the grandson of George Shultz, 95, who was President Richard Nixon’s Treasury and labor secretary and secretary of state for President Ronald Reagan, with whom he had a close relationship. The elder Shultz also happened to be a Theranos board member in 2013 when his grandson accepted a full time position there.
Fresh out of Stanford with a degree in biology, it didn't take long for Shultz to discover deficiencies in the accuracy of Theranos' testing equipment. After Shultz's complaints to Theranos executives, including Elizabeth Holmes, fell on deaf ears, he decided to blow the whistle to a state regulator instead. Using an alias, Tyler Shultz contacted New York state’s public-health lab and alleged Theranos had manipulated a process known as proficiency testing, relied on by federal and state regulators to monitor the accuracy of lab tests.
It all started in the summer of 2012, Shultz accepted an internship at Theranos. Impressed by Elizabeth Holmes, Shultz decided to change his major at Stanford and accepted a full-time position a year later. By chance, or maybe not, Shultz was assigned to the "assay vaildation team, which was responsible for verifying and documenting the accuracy of blood tests run on Edison machines before they were deployed in the lab for use with patients." It didn't take long for Shultz to realize deficiencies in the accuracy of the Edison machines.
After making the decision to quit, Theranos went all-in with their efforts to silence Shultz by releasing an army of lawyers and even hiring private investigators to have him followed.
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2016-11-17/theranos-whistleblower-tells-all
Tyler Shultz is the grandson of George Shultz, 95, who was President Richard Nixon’s Treasury and labor secretary and secretary of state for President Ronald Reagan, with whom he had a close relationship. The elder Shultz also happened to be a Theranos board member in 2013 when his grandson accepted a full time position there.
Fresh out of Stanford with a degree in biology, it didn't take long for Shultz to discover deficiencies in the accuracy of Theranos' testing equipment. After Shultz's complaints to Theranos executives, including Elizabeth Holmes, fell on deaf ears, he decided to blow the whistle to a state regulator instead. Using an alias, Tyler Shultz contacted New York state’s public-health lab and alleged Theranos had manipulated a process known as proficiency testing, relied on by federal and state regulators to monitor the accuracy of lab tests.
After working at Theranos Inc. for eight months, Tyler Shultz decided he had seen enough. On April 11, 2014, he emailed company founder Elizabeth Holmes to complain that Theranos had doctored research and ignored failed quality-control checks.
The reply was withering. Ms. Holmes forwarded the email to Theranos President Sunny Balwani, who belittled Mr. Shultz’s grasp of basic mathematics and his knowledge of laboratory science, and then took a swipe at his relationship with George Shultz, the former secretary of state and a Theranos director.
“The only reason I have taken so much time away from work to address this personally is because you are Mr. Shultz’s grandson,” wrote Mr. Balwani to his employee in an email, a copy of which was reviewed by The Wall Street Journal.
Mr. Shultz quit the same day. As he was leaving Theranos’s headquarters in Palo Alto, Calif., he says he got a frantic cellphone call from his mother, who told him Ms. Holmes had just called the elder Mr. Shultz to warn that his grandson would “lose” if he launched a vendetta against the blood-testing startup.
It all started in the summer of 2012, Shultz accepted an internship at Theranos. Impressed by Elizabeth Holmes, Shultz decided to change his major at Stanford and accepted a full-time position a year later. By chance, or maybe not, Shultz was assigned to the "assay vaildation team, which was responsible for verifying and documenting the accuracy of blood tests run on Edison machines before they were deployed in the lab for use with patients." It didn't take long for Shultz to realize deficiencies in the accuracy of the Edison machines.
After voicing his concerns internally, Shultz received a startling response from Theranos' President, Sunny Balwani.Mr. Shultz interned at Theranos that summer and went to work there full-time in September 2013. He had just graduated after changing his major to biology to better prepare for a career at the startup, he says.
Theranos began offering blood tests to the public in late 2013. The company soon achieved a valuation of $9 billion from investors, with Ms. Holmes owning a majority stake. She also is chief executive of Theranos.
The new employee was assigned to the assay validation team, which was responsible for verifying and documenting the accuracy of blood tests
run on Edison machines before they were deployed in the lab for use with patients.
Mr. Shultz says he found that results varied widely when tests were rerun with the same blood samples. To reduce that variability, Theranos routinely discarded outlying values from validation reports it compiled, he says.
One validation report about an Edison test to detect a sexually-transmitted infectious disease said the test was sensitive enough to detect the disease 95% of the time. But when Mr. Shultz looked at the two sets of experiments from which the report was compiled, they showed sensitivities of 65% and 80%.
Then Mr. Balwani’s response arrived. It began: “We saw your email to Elizabeth. Before I get into specifics, let me share with you that had this email come from anyone else in the company, I would have already held them accountable for the arrogant and patronizing tone and reckless comments.”
Ms. Holmes never replied, says Mr. Shultz, who decided it was time to quit his job. He says his mom called while he was on his way out and implored: “Stop whatever you’re about to do!”
Mr. Shultz says he was startled. He went directly to his grandfather’s office. George Shultz had his assistant photocopy the email from Mr. Balwani and put it in an office safe but seemed skeptical of his grandson’s story, says Tyler Shultz.
After making the decision to quit, Theranos went all-in with their efforts to silence Shultz by releasing an army of lawyers and even hiring private investigators to have him followed.
Of course, Shultz was ultimately proven right as independent researchers have confirmed that "Theranos’s proprietary Edison machines frequently failed quality-control checks and produced widely varying results." Meanwhile, Theranos is the subject of criminal and civil investigations by the U.S. attorney’s office in San Francisco and the Securities and Exchange Commission.He says he was told by his parents that Ms. Holmes called the elder Mr. Shultz in the summer of 2015 to complain that their son was being unreasonable. Tyler Shultz says he also got a tip that private investigators were watching him.
In a conversation in his parents’ kitchen, they pleaded with him to agree to whatever Theranos wanted, he says. Even though his heart sank when they discussed selling their house to cover the costs of defending him against a potential Theranos lawsuit, Mr. Shultz didn’t make a deal with the company.
His grandfather asked if he would sign a one-page confidentiality agreement to give Theranos peace of mind. According to Tyler Shultz, when he said yes, his grandfather revealed that two lawyers were waiting upstairs with the agreement.
Michael Brille and Meredith Dearborn, partners at the law firm Boies, Schiller & Flexner LLP, then came downstairs, says the younger Mr. Shultz. Mr. Brille said he was trying to identify the Journal’s sources. He handed the young man a temporary restraining order, a notice to appear in court and a letter signed by Mr. Boies alleging the former employee had leaked Theranos trade secrets.
Tyler Shultz says his grandfather protested to the lawyers that this wasn’t what he and Ms. Holmes had agreed to earlier, but that Mr. Brille kept pressing the younger Mr. Shultz to admit he had spoken to the Journal.
He wouldn’t. “This conversation needs to end,” the young man eventually declared. He says his grandparents ushered the two lawyers out of the house.
That said, Tyler's decision to speak out against Theranos has caused a rift within his family as he and his grandfather only speak through lawyers and his parents have been forced to spend $400,000 on legal fees.Tyler Shultz is cooperating with an investigation of Theranos by federal prosecutors, according to people familiar with the matter. Theranos is the subject of criminal and civil investigations by the U.S. attorney’s office in San Francisco and the Securities and Exchange Commission, which are trying to determine if the company misled investors and regulators about its technology and operations. Theranos has said it is cooperating.
Mr. Shultz’s allegations that Theranos’s proprietary Edison machines frequently failed quality-control checks and produced widely varying results were corroborated in inspection results released in March by the federal Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services. In April, Theranos told regulators it had voided all test results from Edison machines for 2014 and 2015, as well as some other tests it ran on conventional machines.
In the past year and a half, the grandson and grandfather have rarely spoken or seen one another, communicating mainly through lawyers, says Tyler Shultz. He and his parents have spent more than $400,000 on legal fees, he says. He didn’t attend his grandfather’s 95th birthday celebration in December. Ms. Holmes did.
“Fraud is not a trade secret,” says Mr. Shultz, who hoped his grandfather would cut ties with Theranos once the company’s practices became known. “I refuse to allow bullying, intimidation and threat of legal action to take away my First Amendment right to speak out against wrongdoing.”
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2016-11-17/theranos-whistleblower-tells-all
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